ref:- the email from the tech-kern mailing list
archive below:-
it looks like powerpc (and possibly some other
architectures) provides special instructions to copy
bytes/strings ie update addressing. I was wondering if
the implementation in netbsd takes advantage of these
instructions -as and when they are available.
thanks
-kamal
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Subject: Re: copystr
To: Gary Thorpe <gathorpe79@yahoo.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/02/2002 13:48:14
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 03:23:35PM -0400, Gary Thorpe
wrote:
> By the way I'm using 1.5.2:
> 58% man 9 memcpy
> man: no entry for memcpy in the manual.
> 59% man 9 bcopy
> man: no entry for bcopy in the manual.
>
> If they are there, then the are not documented.
>
> According to the web man pages, bcopy and memcpy
are
> available for 1.6 (and nothing before): so what did
> people use for 1.5.x?
memcpy and bcopy. They simply weren't documented
then.
--
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems
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